Galemys pyrenaicus (E. Geoffroy, 1811) . Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 17:193.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, "Les montagnes pres de Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrenees)" .

DISTRIBUTION: Streams of the Pyrenees and the northern mountains of the Iberian Peninsula (France, Spain and Portugal).

STATUS: IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: rufulus.

COMMENTS: Includes rufulus as a possible subspecies; reviewed by Palmeirim and Hoffmann (1983, Mammalian Species, 207) and Juckwer (1990).